Next up: should the city install more speed humps?
By Charles Sercombe In the past year, Hamtramck has joined thousands of other communities nationwide in cracking down on speeders in residential neighborhoods. How? Speed humps (not speed bumps).…
Cracking down on school threats
By Alan Madlane The Wayne County Prosecutor wants you to have a talk with your child. Before her office has to. In a recent letter to the public, the prosecutor’s…
Deal is sealed to save the Yemeni mural from obstruction
By Alan Madlane The Yemeni mural shall live on. Local social action group OneHamtramck recently issued a press release touting the end of a three-year negotiation to save the mural…
Yemeni community rails against the killing of a fellow immigrant
By Charles Sercombe Last Thursday evening, local Yemeni-Americans held a rally in Zussman Park to protest the death of a California man visiting his homeland. According to various media reports,…
Repaving begins on Conant
By Charles Sercombe And now it’s Conant’s turn to be repaved. Those orange road construction barrels aren’t going away any time soon in Hamtramck. Now that the Caniff repaving project…
Plenty of other improvement projects are happening in town
By Charles Sercombe Hamtramck never rests. Just as the Caniff Ave. reconstruction project was getting buttoned up, two other city projects got underway. After a big press conference several…
Former cop sentenced to three years
By Charles Sercombe A former Hamtramck police officer, charged with assaulting two people he arrested back in 2014, will be going to federal prison. Ryan McInerney, 45, of Grosse Ile…
Caniff is now open for traffic
By Charles Sercombe Most residents have probably noticed by now that one of the city’s main arteries, Caniff Ave., is once again fully open. The street had been closed from…
Move over Hamtramck, Taylor now also shares a part of Little League history
By Alan Madlane Hamtramck’s heroes finally have some company. The Little League World Series, first played between Pennsylvania teams in 1947, had only produced one other winner from Michigan in…
Celebrate the end of summer with the Labor Day Festival
By Charles Sercombe Hamtramck’s celebration of the year once again takes over the north part of Jos. Campau this weekend. After taking last year off due to the Covid…
